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One guy with a knife out of 8.6 million?
I'd say your friend's still pretty safe
- odds of meeting the guy are up there with winning a national lottery. (Tell him to quickly buy a ticket.)
Problem with the news today, too much of it, seemingly more on s slow day.
... ohh look, Trump just blew his nose, lets assemble a large panel of experts and discuss his odds of surviving ..., wait, Rihanna seen shopping ... wait, a duck just crossed the road near central park ...
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sure - that wasn't the actual intent of the post though, just a 'by-thought' - we can talk about 'odds', but that wont help the families of the ?5 dead (so far) who expected their loved ones to come home tonight
... I guess posting on forums wont help them much either 
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: posting on forums wont help them much either
No, but we all appreciate that you took the time to post your good wishes.
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Whilst we're at it, let's offer our prayers to all the people in London who got run over by cars, who slipped in the bath and died, who died of some disease or other, who died of old age, who sneezed too hard and killed passersby with their dentures, who took overdoses of drugs and died, who were murdered by people who are criminals, not ter'r'rists, etc, etc, etc.
Then let's approve spending another handful of million quid on letting security forces spy on us, purportedly to protect us from the one nutter every few years with a knife, who's labelled as a ter'r'rist.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm sparing a thought for my friend, in London, who was just told he's clear of cancer.
This space for rent
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I wish him luck.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's uncalled for. If I could mark you down, I would.
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Why exactly? Isn't it right that there are many more people every day who might have needed some help? Compassion is only a noble thing when it's followed by actions.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Cheers. I didn't want to reply to such an ignorant and rude remark.
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Then maybe you should have started your own thread rather than hijacking this one.
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Hijacking?
I gave my opinion on the topic.
That's allowed, isn't it?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I gave my opinion
It read more like you were criticising Garth's message.
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So disagreeing with a sentiment is criticism, now, is it?
So now I'm not only a hijacker, but also a critic?
Y'know, I only ever insult two people, within CP, and they've bloody well earned it.
Maybe others should follow my example, and discuss opinions -- whilst allowing others to have differing opinions -- rather than insult people personally.
If no-one is allowed to express opinions that are different from the one of the OP, then CP will become pretty damned dull, pretty damned fast.
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Try reading my comment again - calmly.
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So far, I have personally been accused of hijacking threads, and of criticising others.
Neither is true, as I have merely stated my opinion, without insulting or criticising anyone,
But personal insults (and criticisms) have still been thrown at me.
Ask yourself who the bad guy is, here.
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I just said that your comment read like that, I accused you of nothing.
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Listen, don't bother me with facts when I'm in the middle of a rant!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I didn't want to reply to such an ignorant and rude remark.
Well done. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Because when I read it it smacked of sarcasm. If I have read more into it than was intended, then i apologise.
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having an opinion isn't a crime and last time I looked sarcasm wasn't either...
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Then let's approve spending another handful of million quid on letting security forces spy on us, purportedly to protect us from the one nutter every few years with a knife, who's labelled as a ter'r'rist.
Months (or even weeks) if you're in Europe.
Regardless of how we/everyone/the media/governments try to play it all down it does seem to be on the increase. How long will it be before it's one of our friends or family members injured or killed in a future attack (that we're told by our elites that "we have to learn to live with")?
What I don't understand is why people who disagree/dislike our way of life don't just move somewhere more amenable rather than staying here, getting angry with everything and then attacking innocent bystanders?
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: don't just move somewhere more amenable rather than staying here, getting angry with everything and then attacking innocent bystanders
You got that wrong, methinks : They are terrorists. They come here on purpose to hit us, because they are not satisfied with the fact the we "interfere" with their lives in Middle-East.
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Rage wrote: They come here on purpose to hit us
I'm afraid that most "terrorists" were actually born here - many in long-established communities that bear little or no resemblance to the country they're actually in.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Rage wrote: They come here on purpose
The Westminster attacker was British-born and known to the police and intelligence services, the prime minister has revealed.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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